President Emeritus of the Center for Constitutional Rights, Michael Ratner, the U.S. lawyer for Julian Assange talked to the Voice of Russia‘s John Robles regarding the current situation surrounding Julian Assange who remains trapped in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. During part one of the interview he goes into the illegality of the U.S. usage of drones, he speaks about the extremely aggressive reaction against whistleblowers and „truth sayers“ by the U.S. Government and characterizes the illegality and irrational actions of said, as a state in decline desperately clinging to power. Mr. Ratner also discusses Bradley Manning, Jeremy Hammond, U.S. Government secrecy, mentions his clients in Guantanamo who have been tortured and the Yoko Ono-Lennon Award for Courage that he recently received in New York for Mr. Assange in absentia.

Instead, the Post used the memoirs to present the “fighting” over the case for war as a food fight between the President and his key decision-makers. Nearly a decade after the start of the unconscionable Iraq War, the American people are entitled to know more about the deceit of its key leaders and the national security decision-making process.

The sanctions are imposed on two organisations in Belarus – TM Services Limited (TMS) and the managing company of Radar Systems Holding and its subsidiaries, the State Department said.

In addition, five physical and juridical persons from China (BST Technology and Trade Company, China Precision Machinery Import and Export Corporation (CPMIEC), LIMMT, Poly Technologies Incorporated and Carl Li; three persons from Iran (Iran Electronics Industries IEI, Marine Industries Organisation MIO, as well as Milad Jafari; two persons from Sudan (Al-Zarqa Engineering Complex and SMT Engineering); the state-run Venezuelan Military-Industrial Company will be included in the blacklist.

Last month, a US official told AFP that Washington planned to set up a base for drones in northwest Africa to improve surveillance of Islamist groups in the region. The base would probably be in either Niger or Burkina Fasi, the official said.

The US government has maintained secret “capture-or-kill lists” since after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, The Journal pointed out.

Schon Pfeil und Bogen seien aus dem Bemühen erfunden worden, „die eigenen Leute zu schützen und den Gegner zu treffen“. Auch die Einwände der Kirchen gegen das gezielte Töten von Einzelpersonen aus der Distanz ließen außer Acht, dass die praktische Alternative dazu das Flächenbombardement sei.

Der Pilot in einem Flugzeug sehe sein Ziel auch nur noch auf einem Monitor.

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Er nennt sich Ryan Davis und kassiert als V-Mann in der Neonazi-Szene Geld. Dann läuft er aus dem Ruder und gründet in Deutschland einen Ableger des rassistischen Ku-Klux-Klans. Nur durch Zufall erfährt der Verfassungsschutz, dass sein Mann Chef eines Geheimbundes ist – und bezahlt Davis nach seinem Ausstieg erneut.